Method of securing wire fillings to frames.



W. H. SUMMER,

METHOD OF SECURING WIRE FILLINGS T0 FRAMES.

APPLXCATION FILED OCT-1, 191. 1 301 51 Patented Apr, 22,1919.

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METHOD OF SECURING WIRE FILLINGS T0 FRAMES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1, 1917. I 1 $01,518:, Patented Apr. 22,1919.

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a H J a p F 25 I. consists in forming or producing a frame inirn s'rans WILLIAM H. SOMMER, F PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE FIRST TRUST & SAVINGS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO, AND WILLIAM E. STONE, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, TRUSTEES.

racists. 7 Original application filed May 24, 1915,

To all whom it may concern:

of that type comprising a frame which is adapted .to sustain, and have connected therewith, a filling, which together with the frame constitutes the body thereof.

This application is a continuation of the application filed by me on Dec. 10, 1913, Serial No. 805,849, as to such of the subjectmatter of invention disclosed in such application and continued in this.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of securing the wire filling in the frame, and if such invention is employed in a gate structure, the method is in the manner of securing the cross wires in the supporting frame, and

eluding end or vertical reach members and top and bottomor horizontal reach members, each provided with wire-receiving openings; inserting wires through opposite openings in certain of reach bars of said frame; suitably heading the protruding ends of said wires; withdrawing the wires after the headin operation, causing said headed ends of t e Wires to bear firmly against the frame; severing said wire from its stock and suitably heading the other ends of said wires; inserting other wires through the opposite openings in the other of said reach bars of said frame, in which position they cross the previously headed wires; heading said wires to secure them in the frame, 1n manner described for the heading of said first-described wires; and uniting the wires where they .intersect or cross each other by a wiretie connected about said cross wires.

In carrying out my improved method of securing a wire filling to a gate frame, I prefer to make a filler comprising vertical and horizontal wires producing 4 a square Specification of Letters Patent.

METHOD OF SECURING WIRE FILLINGS TO FRAMES.

Patented Apr. 22, lllilil.

Serial No. 30,184. Divided and this application filed October 1, 1917. Serial No. 194,166.

mesh within the frame. The vertical filler wires are first put in the frame, one at a time, although the horizontal wires could be first put in. Each wire is headed, first on one end and then on the other, and this process is carried on until all the vertical. wires have been secured in place, when the horizontal or cross wires are inserted and headed. The-vertical and horizontal wires where they cross are then tied together by a suitable wire tie, preferably, by applying a row of ties simultaneously.

Each wire put in the frame, whether vertical or horizontal wires, is first headed cold, whereas the last heads are hot headed, preferably electrically. This is made necessary because when each wire is first threaded through the frame plenty of stock is provided at the free end of the wire to be gripped outside the frame by a header die and the wire may be cold headed. When this has been done, the stock is withdrawn, causing the cold head to be brought firmly against the frame, and the wire is then severed from the stock, leaving but a small end portion protruding through the frame making it necessary to clamp the wire inside the frame and head the end with a hot heading process. I

To unite the cross wires where they intersect, I prefer to employ a staple-tie, a row of such staples being applied simultaneously. In this manner, the frame and wire filler may be fed in a step-by-step manner beneath suitable staple-tie attaching means, and the wires secured.

A wire filler applied to the frame in manner stated, insures all the wires being abso lutely taut, as the heading of the wires will leave but little slack, only sufiicient to allow for a slight kink where the staple ties are applied, which last 0 eration will take up all the slack, leaving t e filler taut throughout.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view showing a wire having been threaded through the top and bottom, or horizontal reach members of the frame, uncut from its stock, with the free end of the wire about to be cold headed;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, except that the stock has been withdrawn, the headed end of the wire brought firmly againstthe frame, the headed wire severed from the stock, the filler wire clamped within the frame, and the free'end of said wire about to be hot headed v Fig. 3 is a view showing that the filler wires extending in one direction through the tramehave been placed and headed, and a cross wire threaded tl'ierethrough and at the same stage of the operation, as the wire is in, in Fig. l; i

Fig. i is a view similar to Fig. 3, except that the cross wire is at the same stage of the operation, as the wire is in, in Fig. 2;

Fig, 5 is'a view of the complete frame with the cross filler wires secured therein, having been headed on both ends, "the frame being supported on a feeder beneath stapletie applyingdevices;

Fig. 6 is a VlBW similar to Fig. 5, except that stapleshave been applied to each row of intersections of the cross-wires, except the last, and these are about to be applied; and

Fig. 7 is a view in'elevationi showing in a general way the frame feeding and stapletie applying devices.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

Referring to Figs. 5 and 6,the gate frame is shown made of round tubing, the top or upper horizontal reach member- 1, and the ends or vertical reach members 2 and 3 beingbent into form from a single piece of tubing. Thebottom or lower reach member 4: is united to the ends of the vertical reach inem'bersby welding, in such a way as to produce angular mitered c0rners'5.

The horizontal reach members 1 and i are each provided with. alined sets of wire open ings, not shown; the sets, of openings in said members also being in line, so that a wire may be. threaded through one set of openings, across the frame, and through another set of openings. The vertical reach members v2 and 3, like the horizontal reach members,

are each provided with .alined sets of wire openings, not shown; the sets of openings in said members also being in line, so that a wire maybe threaded through one set of 0penings,.aeross the frame. and the other wires/therein, andthrough another set of openings. H

6 designates a wire stock. The frame is so .plarxad that .thisstoek .may be threaded through openings in the reach. member-4, across the frame and through openings in the reach member 1. Wire-guides 7. and 8 placed between the reach members 4t. and 1 of the frame, guide the wire 6t0 position. 13 designates a clamp, for purposes to be explained. a

The free-end of the wire stock 6 is held between header dies '10, which grip the wire at the proper time when the header 11 isthe stay.

brought into operation producing the'head 12 on the end or the wire. This heading operation is preferably a coldheading process.

After thehead '12'had been formed, the stock 6 is withdrawn, both stretching the wire and bringing the. head 12 firmly against the member 1 of thefi'ame. The wire stock extendiirg between the two reach members 1 and 4 produces what will be referred to as 7 Upon the withdrawal ofs zthe wire stock, the clamp 13 grips the wire cent to the reach "member 4 but 'within th'e frame, the stay is severed from. the stock 6 by severing members 1a, and the end otthe stay headed, as at 15, preferably by an electric hot header 16. h

To employ electricity 'for the hot heading process, a transforl'ner 17 isu'sed, a conductor 18 leading from the transformer 'tofth'e hotfheader 1,6,1an'd a conductor 19 leading from the transformer to the frame, thetireuit being completed when "'thefhothead'er 16 engages with the end ofthe stay \vire, such wire contacting with thegate frame, sneer the openings of each set inthe reaehin'ieinher 4 through which the stay 'wirepasses being only large enough to receive the wire- As many stay wires are sectired' inilthe frame. in the manner just described, as :may

be desired. and spaced from ,each other fa whatever distanoe. desired. 'fVVhen a siifiicient number of stay wires have been secured in the frai'ne, said frame-is" turned around and line or cross wires are threaded in, one 'ata time, from the wire 'stock 6, and to secure su'eh line or cross wiresfin the fra1ne,each wire is first cold hfeaded, "as at 20, in the same manner asthe head's '12o'n the stay wires were formed; the'stock withdrawn to cause the head 20'to firmly engage the reach member-2; the cutter '14 Qperated to sever'the lineor c ro'ss Twirefr'oin thestdck 6; and the end of theline or "cross wire headed, as at 2 1, by the hot *proces'spinfthe same niannerand by tlie'sainermeans'employed "for heading the stay wires, as 93115.

As many line or cross wires asidesii'edare secured inthe fraine, in themafinfju'sit described,- and spaced un formly. orpatjgra duated distances from each other, as maybe desired.

The frame having been threaded'with'stay and line or cross wires,and the wires having been headed on their opposite ends to se cure the same, in the f'ramefthey "are ready .now for the application of the tie wires at the intersection of theistay arid-line orcross wires.

The frame is supported on a 'movableo'arrier, such as chains 22. These chains in ve in a step-by-step movement to present er-row of intersections of stayv andtro'ss-ordme wires, simultaneously, to the tie-wire apply ing deviees. H t V -The tie-wire applying devices comgp hse movable bender blocks 23, staple or tie vire benders :24, the staple or tie-wire shear plate 25, and the staple dies 26. A tie-wire stock 27 is fed, )referably diagonally, to each set of tying devices, and as a row of intersections of stay and line or cross wires are presented thereto, staple lengths are first cut from the tie-wire stock 27, by the staple shear plate 25, when the bender blocks 23 force the staple lengths over the staple benders 24, forming them into staples which are then driven across the intersections of the stay and line or cross wires and clenched about the same, as at 28, by being forced into engagement with the staple dies 26. This operation is continued until. staples are applied to all of the intersections of stay and line or cross wires, when the frame is complete.

In the manufacture of wire gates it has been customary to provide a w1re filler by cutting a strip of fabric from a woven fence, lay such strip on the gate frame and secure the ends of the line'or cross wires to the frame by wrapping or coiling the same about the vertical reach members thereof. The objections to such a method are, that the wrappings of the ends of the wires around the reach members are not only unsightly and destroy the contour of the gate frame, but such a method is not strong, will not hold the wires tight, and will quickly rust from the action of the weather thereon. Also,

it is only the ends of the line or cross wires which can be attached to the reach members of th e frame, as the ends of the stay wires are wrapped around or otherwise connected to the top and bottom line or cross wires of the fabric, and will permit the fabric to sag. WVith my improven'ient all the wires, both stay and line or cross wires are connected to the frame, and tying such. wires where they intersect, after they have been secured in the frame, prevents sagging.

The preferred method of feeding the wires to the frame is to feed them one at a time, but it is to be understood that all wires fed in one direction could be fed simultaneously secting wires, a row at a time, and moving.

said frame in a step-by-step movement so as to progressively present the rows of lntersecting portions of said wires to said tiewire applying devices.

WILLIAM H. SOMMER.

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